Browsing Archive: October, 2010

Love Your Body Day! Vinyasa Yoga with Lindsey Schweiger-Whalen

Wake Up Yoga SouthSaturday, October 23rd2:30 - 4pmAll donations will benefit the National Organization for WomenSuggested minimum donation: $10

Pre registration is strongly encouraged. Email alane@wakeupyoga.com or call 215.235.1228.*Celebrate your body's strength, vulnerability, beauty and more through selected poses*Move to a background of inspiring music from female artists*Distance yourself from the shape you "should" be and emb...

"Yoga conquers America—and is conquered in its turn—in this labyrinthine cultural history. Journalist Syman traces American enthusiasm for yoga back to Thoreau and follows it through cycles of waxing and waning popularity: it was decried by Victorians for its association with madness and tantric sex rituals, celebrated in the 1960s for its association with altered states of consciousness (and tantric sex rituals), and ubiquito...